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Published online 13 September 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070910-11
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Salmon parents give birth to trout
Genetic technique creates viable fish sperm and eggs.
Researchers have succeeded in making salmon couples give birth to trout — using a technique that they argue could help to preserve rare species of fish.
Goro Yoshizaki and his colleagues at the Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology in Japan had previously shown that male salmon could be injected with cells from closely-related trout to produce viable trout sperm.
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